The ratline : the exalted life and mysterious death of a Nazi fugitive

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The ratline : the exalted life and mysterious death of a Nazi fugitive

Title remainder

the exalted life and mysterious death of a Nazi fugitive

Statement of responsibility

Philippe Sands

Title variation

Exalted life and mysterious death of a Nazi fugitive

Creator

• Sands, Philippe, 1960-

Author

• Sands, Philippe, 1960-

Subject

• Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
• Nazis -- Biography
• War criminals -- Austria -- Biography
• World War, 1939-1945 -- Atrocities
• Wächter, Horst von, 1939-
• Biographies
• Wächter, Otto, 1901-1949 -- Death and burial
• Wächter, Otto, 1901-1949 -- Friends and associates
• Wächter, Otto, 1901-1949
• Fugitives from justice -- Austria -- Biography

Genre

• Biography
• Biographies

Language

eng

Summary

• "The life and mysterious death of Otto Wachter, former Governor of Nazi-occupied Poland, who died in the Vatican after World War II"--
• Baron Otto von Wächter: Austrian lawyer, husband, father, high Nazi official, senior SS officer, former governor of Galicia during the war, creator and overseer of the Krakow ghetto, indicted after as a war criminal for the mass murder of more than 100,000 Poles, hunted by the Soviets, the Americans, the British, by Simon Wiesenthal, on the run for three years, from 1945 to 1948. Sands, given full access to the Wächter family archives and with the assistance of the Wächters' son Horst, writes of Wächter's rise through the Nazi high command, his family life as their world was brought to ruin, and his four-year flight to escape justice. Given a new identity, on his way to a new life via "the Ratline" to Perón's Argentina, Wächter died in Rome. Was he being recruited in postwar Italy by the U.S. Army Counter Intelligence Corps or by the Soviet NKVD-- or by both? -- adapted from jacket

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Provided by publisher

Biography type

individual biography

Cataloging source

DLC

Dewey number

• 940.53/4779092
• B

Illustrations

• illustrations
• maps

Index

index present

LC call number

DB98.W26

LC item number

S26 2021

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography